In the name of Allah the most graceful, the most merciful.
Your highness sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE,
and Ruler of Dubai,
distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the World GovTechioneers Race for the year 2017,
an international platform
for showcasing governments' most innovative technical solutions
from around the world,
which contributed to enhancing people's quality of life.
Ladies and gentlemen, please join us
in recognizing those winning the race towards the future.
We're going to start with the first award ladies and gentlemen:
The Best m-Government Service Award.
Truth must be told, running in its fourth cycle
the award received over 2,400 nominations
from 62 countries, 27 made it to the finals,
and only nine winners will be rewarded this evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, before we can proceed with any awards,
it is my honor and our honor
to invite His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
o the stage to award the winners.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will start with the education category.
We had nominees in this category and they are;
The European Union, Brazil and Australia.
the winner is...
Learning Potential by the Australian Government
Department of Education and Training.
The application helps parents to engage in their children's education process
through providing tips, ideas and articles
on education, nutrition, sports and wellbeing.
And now ladies and gentlemen, we move on to the health category,
and the nominees in this category included
the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Singapore
the winner is The Guardians of Health
by the Ministry of Health in Brazil.
The app was created for the Olympic Games of 2016
as a participatory monitoring tool
to strengthen the detection of public health emergencies
and outbreaks, allowing users to register their daily health status
and the symptoms and provide them with statistics and health advice
through fun and interactive gaming.
We now move on to the Social Affairs category, ladies and gentlemen.
We had nominees in there as well
and they were from Germany, Sweden, and India.
The winner is Ankommen arrival app
by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Germany.
The application is designed to help refugees
integrate with the society during the first weeks in Germany.
The app is available in five languages
and gives an opportunity for foreigners to adapt to Germany
by providing knowledge of the language,
job opportunities, information on the official procedures, and more.
And now we move on to the tourism category.
The nominees are Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
The winner is Visit Abu Dhabi
by Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority from the UAE.
The application provides an interactive guide for visitors in ten languages
including all information on the city of Abu Dhabi.
It allows users to plan itineraries,
complete online booking transactions,
and provides location services for hotels, malls,
and touristic areas with integration of augmented reality
to ensure users enjoy a top-of-the-line experience.
And now to the environment category.
The nominees are...
they include Estonia, the United States of America,
and the United Arab Emirates.
The winner is ST Energia from the Estonian Energy Company,
and this application is a vital tool
for monitoring and managing user utility consumption.
It provides real-time data analytics on daily, weekly and monthly energy usage
and translates the information into useful statistics and graphs to help the user.
And now we move on to the safety and security category.
Ladies and gentlemen, the nominees are
from the United Arab Emirates , Netherlands and France.
The winner is Dubai Police from the United Arab Emirates.
The application offers the large number of intelligent and integrated services
that serve consumers and contribute to raising the level of safety in Dubai
by providing public access to instant authority contact.
It contains traffic and crime reports, activity feeds,
and all Dubai Police smart services.
And now we move on to the trade and economy category.
The nominees are the United Arab Emirates,
the Sultanate of Oman and Singapore.
The winner is Vendors@Gov
from the Accountant General's Department Ministry of Finance in Singapore.
Ladies and gentlemen, the app provides the government vendors
with smart services to enable them to manage e-invoices and payments
in addition to access all relevant interactive services.
And now we move along
to the transport and infrastructure category.
The nominees include the United States of America,
Austria and the United Arab Emirates.
The winner is The Road and Transport Authority
from Dubai, the UAE.
The comprehensive app includes a list of services and features
designed to support the latest standards for roads
and public transport users in the emirate of Dubai,
such as paying for parking, booking taxis, or paying traffic fines.
And now ladies and gentlemen, to the final category,
The One-Stop App.
And in this category we have three nominees as well,
and they are from the Republic of Kazakhstan,
Russia and the United States of America.
The winner is The Mobile Government of Kazakhstan.
This comprehensive application provides a single platform
for consumers to reach the most top 80 smart government e-services,
and includes a mobile personal cabinet
where a citizen can view their personal data from the national database.
And now ladies and gentlemen we come to the second award,
The Best Government Emerging Technologies Award,
which recognizes governments that are experimenting with emerging technologies
and has proven implemented results of how they have created greater public view.
73 case studies representing 32 countries
and three winning governments in this category.
The winners are...
Estonia, e-Health Records using Blockchain Security.
Securing over 1 million e-health records over blockchain base security
to protect patient records by allowing for a safe, common system
for the sharing and verification of electronic health records
between health care providers.
And one more award goes to the Ministry of Transport in Singapore's
smart transportation and self-driving cars.
As Singapore government granted permission for companies
to test self-driving cars in a designated area of the city
called One-North District,
and now they have started trials with passengers.
And the final winner with us is...
the Netherlands government's Smart City Amsterdam
for their IOT Internet of Things living LAB
that provides public networks, open infrastructure, and data
for developers to accelerate emerging internet of things
or IOT innovations for smart city solutions.
And now ladies and gentlemen,
we move on to the biggest virtual Hackathon in the world
using blockchain technology to build solutions for global challenges.
The Blockchain Virtual GovHack in the biggest of its kind.
Over 1,000 participants from 41 countries and three winners.
Ladies and gentlemen, the nominees are Land Registry,
also Project Oaken,
and Health Blocks.
Those are the nominees, ladies and gentlemen.
As for the first winner of $100,000 dollars goes to...
Project Oaken.
A smart city tool road infrastructure solution
enabling transparent and secure automated payments
using a Tesla car on the Ethereum blockchain.
In the second place, Health Blocks.
Health Blocks is a trusted safe platform for health information exchange
that provides secure health information and records transfer
between patients, clinics, insurance companies, government,
and healthcare providers.
And ladies and gentlemen in the third place is...
Land Registry.
The project allows property title deeds to be stored on a government land registry,
enabling asset ownership transfer from property seller to buyer
all approved via the land department. Congratulations to them.
And now ladies and gentlemen we all know what 2017 is about;
the year of giving,
and we have one more special award
as the UAE marks 2017 as the year of giving.
And this Year of Giving award goes to...
Hypergive.
Hypergive is a project that allows communities
to co-fund secure digital food wallets
for homeless and hungry people in their community,
ensures that donations are spent on food,
and gives dignity in choice to those in need.
By this, ladies and gentlemen, we end the World GovTechioneers Race for this year
and we move on to one more award.
And now ladies and gentlemen,
we have one more award in store for us.
We begin with it right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, during this year's World Governments Summit
a global challenge was organized for universities
to develop concepts which could shape the future of governments.
More than 120 graduate students from 13 top universities
and business schools around the world competed
in the Shaping Future Governments Global Universities Challenge award.
Ladies and gentlemen the participating schools are...
The Harvard Business School,
University of Oxford,
MIT, Stanford University,
University College - London, HEC Paris, IESE Business School,
China Europe International Business School,
The Imperial College - London,
John F Kennedy School of Government...
There we go, London Business School,
Wharton School and last but not least,
Khalifa University.
Ladies and gentlemen, each university team
worked on formulating an innovative vision
of what the government of the future could look like.
They presented their concepts in seven minutes
before a specialized high-level judging panel
which included his Excellency Taavi Roivas former prime minister of Estonia,
Mr. Paul Bennett Chief Creative Officer of IDEO,
Mr. Adel Al Yaqoubi, advisor at the UAE prime minister's office,
and Mr. Christopher Schroeder author and venture capitalist.
Those are the participants, ladies and gentlemen.
And now we're going to take a look at the three nominees of this award.
The nominees are... IESE Business School,
Stanford University,
and last but not least, also from the nominees before announcing the winner,
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
And ladies and gentlemen in this award there's one winner,
and the winning team is...
Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
You may please join us on the stage.
One more time, congratulations to the Harvard Kennedy School.
Also ladies and gentlemen,
we thank his Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
for honoring us and for his never-ending support,
we also extend our appreciation
to all of our distinguished guests for joining us,
and we look forward to seeing you next year
in the World Governments Summit.
One more time, thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
and have a great day.